An interesting blurb in the Montreal Gazette today regarding ZED’s closure at the end of this year…
Girard, who just finished directing the Cirque du Soleil’s Zarkana in New York, is eager to return to Tokyo, where his Cirque production of ZED is still running at Tokyo Disney. But not for long. Disney and Cirque have announced that ZED will go out with the old year on Dec. 31, 2011. Ticket sales had slumped, Girard said. But a 25-per-cent energy-reduction quota imposed on Japanese businesses post-tsunami was probably another factor. “Disney had to cut something big,” he said. “And they decided not to cut the Mickey Mouse train.”
ZED will surface again elsewhere, he promised.
Read the original article here.
{ SOURCE: Montreal Gazette }
